yum clean all doesn't seem to work
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Tue Apr 4 11:57:12 UTC 2006
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I have about 5 Gbytes of old RPMs in directories under /var/cache/yum,
> which I would like to clean out. None of these commands seems to do the
> job:
> # yum clean cache
> # yum clean cache --enablerepo='*'
> # yum clean all
> # yum clean all --enablerepo='*'
>
> I'm reluctant to do
> # cd /var/cache/yum
> # find -name '*.rpm' | xargs rm
> if there's some way to remove the RPMs with yum.
>
> Any ideas?
As a half-way house, couldn't you remove them with "rpm -e"?
Presumably this would be noted in /var/log/rpmpkgs .
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